Ashley Richards

This weekend I “soft launched” Ch.ai. It’s a tea blog. Basically I drink so much tea, find so many little tid bits related to tea, that I could fill a whole blog talking about it. And I don’t put it all here otherwise it would become rather clear just how crazy I am when it [...]

Since it’s been feeling like summer here in Vancouver (finally), Brendon and I have been drinking some good old-fashioned sweet tea. There’s only one company on the West Coast that I know that serves it, and it’s the restaurants at the Flying J truck stops on I-5. Since we’re nowhere near one and Vancouver thinks that sweet [...]

This is for my pregnant and mommy friends. For those who don’t know her, Samantha Bee is the only woman correspondent for The A Daily Show (and she’s Canadian). Today I caught a portion of Steven and Chris (aka The Designer Guys’ new show on CBC), and saw Samantha Bee’s top 5 pregnancy list. It’s probably [...]

Brendon and I talked with his grandmother (aka Nanny)  in Australia via video Skype a couple weeks ago.  It was the first time he talked to her face to face in about 24 years.  After seeing Brendon and talking to him for a bit she said, “We live in a magical age.” And you know  [...]

Driving home yesterday I was listening to NPR and heard NDPer, Jack Layton, get up in parliament demanding that the government do something about climate change. Unfortunately, he experienced a slight slip of the tongue. But it was funny. Here’s a news clip

So this week I’m super tired. I guess that’s what being 20-10 means…
Anyway, I went to my lil’ sis’s MySpace page and see a YouTube post under the person she wants to meet. I think I want to meet this baby too. I couldn’t help but smile. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P6UU6m3cqk&eurl=

I stumbled over a funny little video on Canada by comedian Eugene Mirman.

So I’m putting together various playlists for our trip down to SoCal. After searching for “Disneyland” on iTunes, I stumbled across the funniest song I’ve heard yet about the place, Gettin Drunk at Disneyland sung by some guy called Fig to the tune of Enter Sandman by Metallica. You can read [...]

Okay, so if you don’t know what Eurovision is or have never seen the contest, you probably don’t understand the trainwreck that it is. It something like the Miss American Pagent combined with American Idol. Each European country has their own competition to choose the best song to go the Eurovision. This song has to [...]

Patrick Brealey and the Knives
I can’t really place who they sound like, but it’s a bit pop-rock. Something about it reminds me of The Wannadies, but not as sugary. If you need a mood lift listen to Escaper. Patrick used to be part of The Salteens, but broke out on his own a couple years [...]